(1.) Dawn<\/p>\n\n\n\n
trees melt
from the blackened wax abyss<\/p>\n\n\n\n
like ghosts
disjoining themselves
in whispers
from the wick<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and the first light
of a long relinquished sunrise
starts to peel
the fugitives from our flesh<\/p>\n\n\n\n
until these stowaways
expelled from past lives
are restored again
as strangers
and their trespasses
are swept from the skin
upon light’s every subsequent touch<\/p>\n\n\n\n
we are in it now<\/p>\n\n\n\n
in remission of night<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and you were right<\/p>\n\n\n\n
these shut-ins
had spilled us
from our shadows<\/p>\n\n\n\n
we had become
briefly irretrievable
to the colors of the sun<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but we are in it now<\/p>\n\n\n\n
we are in the morrow of our loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(2.) Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n
heavens uncoil
and flush out of see-through eyes
and suddenly you rise
from every
street lit ocean
to meet what dreams you here
so vividly alive<\/p>\n\n\n\n
mountains,
trees
and superfluous moons<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(marooned in daylight)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
envious of the ease
with which you spill your shadows
crawl like phantoms towards you<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and I,
bitter still
fall through you
untouched<\/p>\n\n\n\n
inexistant<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and I,
unloved
with such sheer indifference<\/p>\n\n\n\n
still try
somehow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
to unbloom the sky
from every pair of eyes
that let me pass by
unattained<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and I,
covetous of how perfectly you framed
the absence of light<\/p>\n\n\n\n
still pry
at what remains of you
in every drop of rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(3.) Dusk<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the cigarette
upon whose receding edge
the ghosts of love
once danced<\/p>\n\n\n\n
has lost its taste<\/p>\n\n\n\n
daylight drains<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and all that ever clung
to lips unkissed by you
is glad to hitchhike in its wake<\/p>\n\n\n\n
here it comes
the collapse of a blue vacuum<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but like Saturn<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and every other pebble
stuck mid ripple<\/p>\n\n\n\n
stuck halfway down the throat
of some ocean coughing itself blue<\/p>\n\n\n\n
we
are immovable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(4.) Night<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the great rains of the world
have exploded from us<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and for a moment
we were alliums
on the grave of death
hoisted high toward the sun<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and for a moment<\/p>\n\n\n\n
we were ours alone<\/p>\n\n\n\n
for a moment<\/p>\n\n\n\n
we were gone<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but we are back in it now<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the throes of moving on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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